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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 25,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84413-917-0
EAN 9781844139170
Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 was the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. With 335 ships and 40,000 men, it was the largest long-distance seaborne force the world had ever seen. But Napoleon's assault was intended to be much more than a colonial adventure, for he ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950624-9
EAN 9780099506249
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-192032-6
EAN 9780091920326
'I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.' Thus begins 'Strung Out', Woody Allen's hilarious application of the laws of the universe to daily life. "Mere Anarchy", Woody Allen's first new collection in over 25 years, features eighteen witty, wild and intelligent comic pieces - ...
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The Gathering
Man Booker Prize 2007
- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950163-3
EAN 9780099501633
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. "The Gathering" is a novel ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-946603-1
EAN 9780099466031
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951859-4
EAN 9780099518594
Liars in Love is concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth:Hope, dread, disorder, and a nervous entangling of separate lives in Greenwich Village during the Depression, as seen by a child, in 'Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired'. The volatile, perilous course of events set in motion when two divorced mothers agree to ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951379-7
EAN 9780099513797
Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. This becomes the cause of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's younger son, who wants the reward money to set up a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 992 páginas
PVP: 11,95 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951145-8
EAN 9780099511458
'Dickens's chilling tale of murder and betrayal' Sunday Times 'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself''Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit that has been in process for generations. Nobody can remember exactly how the case started but many different individuals have found their fortunes caught up in ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952086-3
EAN 9780099520863
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952654-4
EAN 9780099526544
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 8,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951856-3
EAN 9780099518563
Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older sister and is jealous of her relationship with their absent father, and later her seemingly golden marriage. The path she chooses for herself is less safe and conventional and her love affairs ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951857-0
EAN 9780099518570
First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s, the era when the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-945827-2
EAN 9780099458272
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think.When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education.Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-09-952639-1
EAN 9780099526391
Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of the Seven Years War - the British defeated the French in arduous campaigns on ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-09-947045-8
EAN 9780099470458
In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening, while in her mind she is much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and, met with the realities ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7493-9754-8
EAN 9780749397548
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscien-tious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928506-9
EAN 9780099285069
At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick ten ement to orphanage, a grandmother in Jackson, an aunt in Arkansas he h ad ...
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Inner Workings
Essays 2000-2005
- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-950614-0
EAN 9780099506140
Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth, Bruno Schulz, Sandor Marai lived through the Austro-Hungarian fin de siècle and felt the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951673-6
EAN 9780099516736
Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesmerising: Mak's rare double ...
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- Vintage UK, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-951863-1
EAN 9780099518631
Robert Prentice is eighteen, and his boyhood dreams have disintegrated on the battlefields of Europe. At home, his mother, Alice, wraps herself in fantasy against the relentless disappointments of life.From his compelling portraits of these two damaged souls, Richard Yates creates a brilliant novel of post-war America, at odds with its own identity, striving to ...
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